Thanks, Ken. There is a lot of detailed information in the link you
gave. Some day I might change the colors with the method they give. The
dark blue color for files is hard to see, but for now the following got
me back to where I was.
alias ls='ls --color'
source .bashrc
Stan
On 6/26/2018 4:31 PM, 'Ken (desco) Ramsey ' desco1kr@desco1.com
[LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> https://www.howtogeek.com/307899/how-to-change-the-colors-of-directories-and-files-in-the-ls-command/
>
> Describes printing, changing values, saving the original file. I have an
> original file if you need it.
>
>
> ..
> On 6/26/2018 3:38 PM, Stan Gorodenski stanlep@commspeed.net
> [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
>
>> Thanks Joan, Bruce, Scott, and Ken. ls --color and ls -a --color works,
>> but I have to enter --color all the time. I guess some kind of change I
>> did not want occurred in a file. I will probably have to find it and set
>> it back to what it was using nano.
>>
>> I assume pipe works in other commands, such as cl, besides ls. I had run
>> a cl command and it came up with more than a page full of messages and I
>> wanted to see the beginning.
>> Stan
>>
>> On 6/26/2018 11:08 AM, Scott scottro@nyc.rr.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
>>
>>>> From: "Stan Gorodenski stanlep@commspeed.net [LINUX_Newbies]"
>>>>
>>> <LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com>
>>>
>>>> To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 9:56 AM
>>>> Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Changing file-folder colors and screen output
>>>>
>>>> I am running the terminal version of Ubuntu. I think this is what
>>>>
>>> it is
>>>
>>>> called. I enter line commands rather than having a gui interface.
>>>>
>>>> Yesterday when I entered 'ls -a' the files and folder names were
>>>> colored, i.g., files were a deep blue. It has always been this way.
>>>>
>>> This
>>>
>>>> morning the print color of files and folders are all white. This makes
>>>> it hard to distinguish files from folders. What happened? On the
>>>> internet the suggestions were to go into a file and modify some
>>>> settings. This seems to be an extreme measure, unless somehow the
>>>> dircolors got corrupted. How can I get back to what I had?
>>>>
>>> You can try ls --color. Perhaps a default preference got changed in an
>>> update or the like?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> As another issue, I think I read somewhere how to control the screen
>>>> display of, say, error messages so that it does not scroll all the way
>>>> to the bottom. When it scrolls all the way to the bottom I cannot see
>>>> the very first top lines if the output is larger than the screen size.
>>>> What do I do to control scrolling?
>>>> Stan
>>>>
>>> The scroll lock key? You can pipe a command that you expect to give a lot
>>> of text to more or less, e.g ls home|more
>>>
>>> This will stop at the bottom of the screen and to continue, you hit the
>>> space bar.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Scott Robbins
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>>> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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